Word: disappears
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...virtually dictate some wages? Such "important structural changes" in the economy "make Friedmanite solutions unrealistic," argues Economist John R. Bunting, president of First Pennsylvania Banking & Trust Co. "It would be wonderful if just fixing money-supply growth within an appropriate range would make inflation and other economic problems disappear...
...Food chains," Mayer reports, "are more willing to go along with reforms than the manufacturers. Chains and supermarkets will always sell food, but the manufacturers are afraid that the markets for their biggest money-makers will disappear." Mayer harbors no deep love for General Mills and General Foods but he is hesitant to have one corporation reform itself unilaterally while the others make a killing. "It is right, I think, that there be tough national food and drug regulations, complete with enforcement provisions...
...early as the Korean War, Rivers had urged President Truman to use nuclear weapons. Following the Pueblo incident, he proposed that the U.S. give North Korea 24 hours to return the vessel, or "I'd make sure that at least one of her cities would disappear from the face of the earth." His response to Viet Nam: "Retaliation, retaliation, retaliation. They say, 'Quit the bombing.' I say, 'Bomb...
Warts, those horny, homely growths on the surface of the skin, are often harmless annoyances that tend to disappear if ignored. Occasionally they can grow large or deep enough to cripple hands and feet or, if on the face, to cause psychological problems. But while warts have bedeviled man for thousands of years, physicians have yet to discover either the reason or the remedy for them...
...after doctors painted the growths with a bright vegetable dye. Dr. Goldman has tried an even more mystical method. He asks suggestible children to send him a detailed tracing of the wart-covered hand or foot. Then he burns the diagram and tells the youngsters that their warts will disappear in a few weeks. They usually...